The Vantage Point
The command center for The Show Presented By VDG Sports. This is the home of the “Warning Shot”—raw, unfiltered takes that challenge the sports media status quo.
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Manufactured Outrage: How Sports Media Turns Emotion Into Profit
Sports media is not really in the truth business anymore, it is in the emotion business. How manufactured outrage turns timelines, panels and clips into profit.
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The NBA Soap Opera: Stop Falling for the Script
The NBA soap opera is bigger than basketball, and that is the point. One minute it is a ridiculous dunk, the next an argument over legacy. Why to stop falling for the script.
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NFL Rivalries: The Business of Manufactured Hatred
NFL rivalries get sold like sacred history, with blood, legacy and pride. How networks dress up a big divisional game and turn manufactured hatred into business.
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John Elway: The Most Disrespected Legend Ever?
If you feel like the NFL loves a perfect quarterback mold, John Elway is proof the narrative can be bigger than the talent. Was he the most disrespected legend ever?
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The Sports Media Lie: Why You’re Being Played
Sports media is full of absolute statements that age like milk, yet the people who make them face no consequences. Why the loudest experts can be confidently wrong again and again.
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The Michael Jordan “Rejection” Story is a Lie: A Myth Powered Culture
Some stories are too good to be true, which is why they get repeated. The Michael Jordan rejection story is packaged like a movie script. Why the myth is powered by culture.
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NHL: Beauty or Brutality? The League’s Identity Fraud
Hockey wraps itself in gladiator and warrior language and sells the hits as tradition. Is the NHL beauty or brutality, and does its identity hold together?
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The Trash Talk Lie Networks Are Feeding You
Think about the last time someone got in your head during a competition. Did you crumble or rise to the challenge? The trash talk story networks feed you, examined.
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The Facial Expression Scam: Turning a Blink into a Feud
Networks have gotten good at turning tiny moments into long running narrative cash machines. A three second look or a tired sigh becomes a feud. The facial expression scam.